August 2011: The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) is launching a regional training programme on pest risk analysis (PRA) for Latin America, aimed at strengthening countries' technical capacity to: protect their territories against entry of pests; meet PRA requirements of importing markets; and implement recommendations of the IPPC and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
21 August 2011: The Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP) held a six-day regional workshop with coordinators from Asia, to provide training and guidance on the vision and strategy of the programme, results-based management framework and GEF's visibility policy for the next four years.
2 August 2011: The World Bank and Global Environment Facility (GEF) have presented the outcomes of a project implemented from 2004-2010, to support pastoral communities in China to increase their income through improved breeding stock, artificial insemination, veterinary services and capacity building in land-management techniques.
18 August 2011: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has presented the results of a project implemented by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to conserve biodiversity in the Eastern Arc Mountain forests of Tanzania, which, over seven years (2003-2010), increased protected area coverage by over 500,000 hectares and supported the creation of protected forest corridors in sensitive areas, including in the Derema area and Bunduki Gap in the Ulugurus.
18 August 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) seeking to contribute to the implementation of the CBD Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020.
16 August 2011: The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), with JSW-Time India Earth Care Initiatives 2011, organized a Roundtable on Climate Change and Rainfed Farming Systems that focused on providing sustainable and science-based solutions and pro-poor approaches to climate change adaptation.
The UN General Assembly approved a resolution to organize a high-level plenary meeting in 2014 (the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in 2014) to share perspectives and best practices on the realization of indigenous peoples' rights, including to pursue the objectives of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The World Conference on Indigenous Peoples 2014 will be organized as a high-level plenary meeting of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly and supported by the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, to share perspectives and best practices on the realization of the rights of indigenous peoples and to pursue the objectives of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
12 August 2011: The UN Universal Postal Union has announced the winners of this year's International Letter-Writing Competition for Young People. In keeping with the International Year of Forests 2011, this year's topic was a plea to save the world's forests. Youth were asked to imagine themselves as a tree, writing a letter to someone to explain the importance of protecting forests.
11 August 2011: The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has published a report of the UN Secretary-General that was prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in response to UNGA resolution 64/205 requesting the Secretary-General to report to it at its 66th session on the status of sustainable development in mountain regions.
July 2011: The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) has announced the indigenous organizations or organizations working for indigenous peoples selected for grants under the 2011 Small Grants Programme of the Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues relating to the Second International Decade of the World's Indigenous People. A total of 10 proposals were selected from Belize, Canada, Congo, Malaysia, Russia, Samoa, Tanzania, Venezuela and Viet Nam.
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